How To Install Tenable Nessus into Kali?

I am pentest guy. I heard that Nessus is very good tool to manage vulnerabilities or vulnerability scanning. How can I install Nessus into my dpkg based pentest box? My distro my Debian, Ubuntu, Kali etc.

Get License Key

First step is license key. In old days Nessus was provided by Kali distribution as home version. There was no day limit of the Nessus. But the days gone and we are now here. To use Nessus we can download a trial of 7 days or buy. I assume you have completed this step. We can complete this step with this web page

Install

Our package download is completed. We will install the Nessus with dpkg tool. Our packages full name is Nessus-6.9.0-debian6_amd64.deb . Installation can take some time. Actually installin Nessus is fast but configuration of the plugins take some time. There are a lot of plugins for different systems. For example it took 870 second in my SSD cached Kali virtual machine.

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$dpkg-iNessus-6.9.0-debian6_amd64.deb

(Reading database...404642files anddirectories currently installed.)

Preparing tounpack Nessus-6.9.0-debian6_amd64.deb...

Unpacking nessus(6.9.0)...

Setting up nessus(6.9.0)...

Unpacking Nessus Core Components...

nessusd(Nessus)6.9.0[build M20070]forLinux

Copyright(C)1998-2016Tenable Network Security,Inc

Processing the Nessus plugins...

[##################################################]

All plugins loaded(870sec)

-You can start Nessus by typing/etc/init.d/nessusd start

-Thengo tohttps://kali:8834/ to configure your scanner

Processing triggers forsystemd(231-9)...

Keep in mind that to install we need root privileges. After installation it gives helpfull information about.

Post-Install

After installing Nessus we should do some configuration. Nessus is not started by default. So we should start Nessus with the following command.

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$/etc/init.d/nessusd start

Starting Nessus:.

We have started nessusd service but be sure it is running by checking service status.